How I Read Aloud, 17

[Such a poem, when uttered, is...an experiential garden where fellow humans meet and revel.]

       And what does any of what is said above have to do with voice?   If anything, the voice being responsive to concerns that lie within the poem and within one’s heart can warm the voice up and make it listenable.  But attention to voice itself and what it can do will leave listeners with nothing but a disembodied voice, only their act of listening and your act of reading, nothing important, just a mutual trance of self-reflectedness.  That’s a prospect I do my best to walk away from.
 
       And when you are walking toward the poem and into the poem and what’s happening there, you are walking away from that.

    Don